Data and space
Charts of how the world is changing and the real paths spacecraft flew, from Data is Beautiful. See all videos.
Artemis I flight path
Follow Artemis I day by day, from launch around the Moon and back to Earth. Play, pause and drag through the days.
Charts
Each chart opens as a live version you can play and pause.
Mission paths
Each path opens in the mission player, from NASA JPL Horizons positions. Apollo 11 is rebuilt from NASA's mission records.
More paths in the player
Danuri
South Korea's first Moon orbiter took a slow, fuel saving route to lunar orbit.
Launched 2022
SLIM
Japan's pinpoint lander looped out to save fuel, then circled the Moon for weeks.
Launched 2023
LCROSS
Crashed on purpose into a dark crater near the lunar south pole, looking for water.
Launched 2009
James Webb Space Telescope
Flew far past the Moon to its observing orbit, about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth.
Launched 2021
Beta
Beta: not reviewed yet, and there is no video for these.
Every rocket launch since 1957Beta
A race by country, with SpaceX as its own bar.
The Keeling curveBeta
Carbon dioxide in the air, measured on Mauna Loa every month since 1958.
A message to Voyager 1Beta
Send a radio message and watch it travel for almost a day.
Do all the planets fit between Earth and the Moon?Beta
A true-scale strip you can check for yourself.
Drain the oceansBeta
Lower the sea to reveal the sea floor, then compare the deepest lakes and trenches.
Glacier lake floodsBeta
Every recorded outburst flood on a map, year by year, with a zoom on the Himalaya.
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